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Our Growing Collections                          29

Blow gift. Mr. George Blow has presented thirty-six World War
II posters for addition to the collection donated last year. His re¬
cent gift includes handsome examples, all in pristine condition, of
posters issued by Phiico Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, the
Office of ^^'ar Information and the United States Government
Printing Office. Among the artists tepresentcd are Rube Goldberg,
Herberr Johnson and Arthur Szyk.

Bonnell gift. Miss Alice H. Bonnell (B.S., 1940) has presented the
copy of the first edition of Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, New
York, 1885, in two volumes, which was owned by her grand¬
father. General Henry Harrison Boyce, who served under Grant
during the Civil W'ar. General Boyce subscribed to this first edi¬
tion, and his book labels are on the inside front co\ers of both
volumes.

Chilton Book Company gift. From the Chilton Book Company of
Philadelphia we have received the editorial, production and pub¬
licity files of Greenberg: Publisher, founded in 1924 by Jacob W.
Greenberg (B.Lit., 1914) and his brother, David B. Greenberg
(A.B., 1913), and acquired by Chilton in 1958. Numbering more
than 46,000 items, the papers document the publication of special¬
ized works in many fields, including "how to" books, westerns,
cooking books and health guides. Among the authors represented
in the files are Lucius Beebe, Louis Bromfield, Kenneth Burke,
Howard Dietz, Theodore Dreiser, Karen Horncy, \^'illiam Inge,
Christopher Isherwood, Alfred Kinsey, Amy Loveman, Arthur
iMiller, Ashley Montagu, William Saroyan and Jose Gracia \'^illa.

Cluett gift. Mrs. E. Harold Cluert has presented the series of 83
autograph letters written by Nicholas Murray Butler, from 1884
to 1896, to her mother, Alice Haven (later Mrs. Requa). This
early and important correspondence begins when Butler and Miss
Haven were part of an American student gtoup in Betlin, where
he had gone to do research for his Columbia doctoral dissertation.
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